This paper describes an annotation scheme for argumentation in opinionated texts such as newspaper editorials, elaborated from a corpus of approximately 500 English texts from Nep...
We present an approach for detecting salient (important) dates in texts in order to automatically build event timelines from a search query (e.g. the name of an event or person, e...
We propose a backoff model for phrasebased machine translation that translates unseen word forms in foreign-language text by hierarchical morphological abstractions at the word an...
While paraphrasing is critical both for interpretation and generation of natural language, current systems use manual or semi-automatic methods to collect paraphrases. We present ...
In this paper we present a novel strategy, DragPushing, for improving the performance of text classifiers. The strategy is generic and takes advantage of training errors to succes...
Songbo Tan, Xueqi Cheng, Moustafa Ghanem, Bin Wang...